Notes

Symantec developer in 1992: "Surely no one will still be using this software 33 years from now"

Quality. Value. They're what Shanghaimuxinmuyeyouxiangongsi is known for around the world.

did you ever have an mp3 with corrupted bytes that made winamp or whatever make that little hiccup sound and you got so used to hearing it that now when you listen to a proper version of that song you still expect to hear that noise at the same spot?

why are whistles the standard by which we judge cleanliness

this new australian law is going to decimate my https://plan.cat userbase

#openbsd

where give money

When the stupid snow is too wet and heavy to use your snow blower so you have to shovel it by hand and now you're sweating in a parka and the legs of your jeans are wet and your back hurts and you smell like a wet dog and it's still snowing so you know you're going to have to do it all over again

https://merveilles.town/@neauoire/115621938437966225

https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/pull/14369

"I did not write a single line of code but carefully shepherded AI over the course of several days"

"Beats me. AI decided to do so and I didn't question it."

Why are people like this?

what if instead of www over http, internet sites were git repositories and every day your browser fetched updates to each one and navigated them offline and as a bonus you had archives of your favorite internet sites that you could search with grep

it could be called ggg: the Global Git Gossamer™

"Microsoft’s Open Source Programs Office (OSPO), Team Xbox, and Activision are making Zork I, Zork II, and Zork III available under the MIT License"

https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/11/20/preserving-code-that-shaped-generations-zork-i-ii-and-iii-go-open-source

Loose wires sink ships

https://www.ntsb.gov/news/press-releases/Pages/NR20251118.aspx

The kerning on that Tr pair is really bothering me

"We're (now) moving from OpenBSD to FreeBSD for firewalls"

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/OpenBSDToFreeBSDMove

Just as I suspected, it was all Rust's fault

https://blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-2025-outage/

according to my wife

the overhead announcement at the grocery store just advertised a URL that ended in "dot html"

i'm now imagining their webmaster uploading a static html file to their ftp site with WS_FTP